>> Does pkgsrc provide a mechanism to install man pages, and if so which
>> are the relevant variables?
>
> Do you mean INSTALL_MAN_DIR and INSTALL_MAN?
Or use INSTALLATION_DIRS for the man directory. It will use
INSTALL_MAN_DIR behind the scenes.
Also, please consider using ${PKGMANDIR} instead of hard-coding "man"
(such as ${PREFIX}/${PKGMANDIR}/cat5/). (Similar to using ${INFO_DIR}
also.)
Other variables include:
MANZ defined to compress, not defined means uncompressed.
MANCOMPRESSED used by package to indicate if already gzipped or not.
And MANCOMPRESSED_IF_MANZ is for few packages that may use bmake-style
makefiles.
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